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make-over and talk shows, 133
Making of the English Working Class. EP
Thompson, 49–51
Maltby, Richard, 9
Mandel, Ernest, 191
Marcuse, Herbert, 63, 64, 65, 195
Marley, Bob, 85
Marshment, Margaret, 137
Marx, Karl and Marxisms, 3, 50–1, 59–89,
107, 140, 149, 190–7, 229, 232–4
see also post-Marxism and cultural studies
masculinities, 87, 141, 143–5, 159–60
mass culture, 21–2
aesthetic-liberal position, 28
America, in, 28–33, 52
art, 54
capitalism, 65, 234
class, 33
commodities, 234
conformity, 62, 64
consumption, 234–5
corporate-liberal position, 28
definition of popular culture, 6, 8–9, 12
dumbing down, elitism and, 234
films, radio and magazines, 62
folk culture, 30–1
Frankfurt School, 62–5, 68–70
high culture, 30–1
homogeneity, 62
ideology, 149–53, 234–5
impoverishment, 31
intellectuals, 28, 33
Leavisism, 24, 27
pleasure and politics, 234
politics of the popular, 234–5
postmodernism, 196–7
production, 6, 8–9, 12, 234–5
radical or socialist position, 28
reproduction, 68–9
romantic fiction, reading, 140
Soviet Union, 29–30
superior or refined culture, mediocre
culture and brutal culture, 32–3
work and leisure under capitalism, 65
working class, 38–42
Matisse, Henri, 65
McGuigan, Jim, 213–16, 226–7
McLellan, Gregor, 50
McNamara, Robert, 177–8
McRobbie, Angela, 82, 181, 186, 233
meanings, 74, 86–7, 126–7, 136, 217
media ownership, concentration of, 210
Michaud, Gene, 175
milk bars, 42–3
Mills, Sara, 77
mirror stage, psychoanalysis and, 101–2,
105–6
modernism, 182–5, 190, 191, 194, 197–8,
203
Modleski, Tania, 140
Morley, David, 11
morphemes, 114–15
Mouffe, Chantal, 11, 83–4, 86, 196–7
Mulvey, Laura, 104–7, 136–7
Murdock, Graham, 227
music see also pop music
advertisements, 65, 66
classical music, 55–6, 65, 66
folk songs, 40
jazz, 55–6
opera and classical music, 65, 66
music hall, 53, 61
mythemes, 114–15
Mythologies. Roland Barthes, 118–25
myths, 118–25
American Dream, 117
American westerns, 115–16
binary oppositions, 115–16
grammar, 114–15
narrative structure, 115–16
similarity and difference, 115–16
structuralism, 114–16
naïve gaze and pure gaze, 219–20
narcissism, 105–6
narrative and spectacle, moments of, 106
Nixon, Richard, 176–7
Nixon, Sean, 159
nostalgia, 38, 192–3
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, 14
O’Connor, Alan, 44
Oedipus complex, 92–3, 97, 103–4, 141–2,
143
opera, 65, 66
organic communities, loss of, 8, 26–7